Scarred for life
A mile north of the railroad cut that I featured in my "Crystalline Wall" (January 17) post, the railroad right-of-way becomes broader, but is still characterized by steep, though not precipitous, banks. Here, trees established themselves many, many years ago on the lip of the cut. Over the years, they've developed some pretty impressive buttresses to anchor themselves at the rocky edge.
My new camera allows me to create monochromatic images so, when I took the time to really examine these trees, I thought they might make good subjects rendered in black-and-white.
Slowly engulfing a stone
And, to finish up, some splashes of color...
Low sun enflaming American beech leaves on a darkening afternoon
Moss- and fungus-encrusted log
9 comments:
prehistoric for sure... lovely!
Hi, and great pictures - some of the tee roots look like eally angry feet!
Love to you
Gail
peace.....
Scott, love the 'impressionist' header!
The b/w trees are incredible. Those roots look 'alive'! I know....
Thanks for showing my favourite tree of all...the Beech!
They never struck me as "prehistoric," until you made me look again John! Thanks for another perspective.
...and another perspective--angry feet! I think sometimes after a long day my feet feel like that. I certainly can see those, too!
Jim, I'm an "oak" man, myself, but American beeches make really great images.
Love the black-and-white images, Scott. #1 and #5 look like feet to me, too--bird feet. Pterodactyl?
Packrat: I'm going to check the feet of my parrot, Alcazar, for a resemblance to these tree buttresses. I think he'll be offended. If I tell him they could look like pterodactyl talons, he might let me off lightly.
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